Monday, October 17, 2011

Pagemaps Contest Entry

It has been an embarrassingly long time since I've blogged, so we won't even talk about it! Moving right along...

As usual, I was checking out some of my favorite blogs, and I came across yet another contest from Pagemaps. I will take this opportunity to reiterate how much I love these sketches. They are so versatile and easy to use, I just can't stop! I have purchased both of Becky Fleck's Pagemaps books, and I also keep a binder full of the free monthly downloads from pagemaps.com. If that wasn't enough, I now obsessively follow the blog at pagemaps.blogspot.com to get even more ideas!

It spoke to me. I don't know if it was the layout, the pretty fall accents pictured, or just the right day/time to catch my eye, but I loved it. I started thinking about what I could create with it, and I decided on a farm layout. My sister and I recently were looking at some old family photos of our mom's, and we both commented on a couple of our grandfather on his farm. Combine those pics with Moxxie's new release called "Farm Livin'," then add in the sketch...well, it was meant to be! Here's what I came up with for my entry:

Aren't those pictures the best?! We are pretty sure that they were taken by my grandmother, Phyllis. To get that fabulous shot of him with the cornfields behind him, she must have been sitting on the top of the tractor. Priceless. I thought the Farm Life papers and embellishments complimented the pictures, and it went together really easily. I added several different kinds of twine, did a lot of distressing to the papers and stickers, and included lots of my favorite inks from Quick Quotes!

Be sure to check out the contest. Even if you don't enter, you'll be inspired by some of the other really awesome entries. Give us a link in your comment if you do a layout too. I'd love to see what you create!

I love this page and I can relate to the comment from Sheryl about the b&w photos. I love them in layouts and with Rhonda's comment about QQ Inks. I am an inkaholic and when Peggy showed me these inks I had to have them. I have not been able to do without them since. Thank you Quick Quotes!

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Who is Micheggy?

Micheggy proper noun, slang -The combination name of Michelle James and Peggy Stolley. Often used when referring to both Michelle and Peggy

Michelle James is a former scrapbook store owner, who has moved on to another career, but still has a love for scrapbooking, paper crafting, and card making. Michelle's newest love is digital scrapbooking, where she can sit in front of her laptop, virtually anywhere, and manipulate digital versions of papers, brads, flowers and more to create pages for her treasured photos.

Peggy Stolley currently works as a sales representative for several different scrapbooking companies, but in her former lives she has worked as a retail employee and elementary school teacher. Peggy also loves scrapbooking, paper crafting, and cardmaking, and her passion is altering objects. She finds great pleasure in taking an old brie cheese container or jar of snack mix and turning it into an adorably altered item.

Micheggy has worked together on many projects, their most favorite of which are weekend long crops. Their crops are always full of fun, prizes, ideas, shopping opportunities, and other unique experiences known only to those crop attendees. Micheggy has also collaborated on classes, researching and teaching techniques to fellow paper crafters.